An article in the Wall Street Journal today on approaches to IT Outsourcing (The Goldilocks Strategy) has definite parallels to what I've seen with SOA...

At our annual sales kickoff in Miami last week, I heard a story about one of the Regional Sales Managers that put a smile on my face, and it made me like Progress a little more. When asked by the CFO how he did last year, the regional sales manager responded "six cents".

Six cents....

A special issue of the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin has just been released; the special issue is focused on XQuery, specifically on existing implementations and the areas in which those implementations...

In the recent past more than one XQuery user has asked me the same question: why is XQuery escaping my angle brackets? One of the examples of such problem looked something like this:[cc lang="xquery"]let $input := book 1 book 2 for $book in $input/book return (string(""), ...

Down in Florida for Progress' annual sales kickoff meeting and using the opportunity to visit my grandparents. Needing a car to get around, I rented a low-end model from Dollar/Thrifty, an Actional customer....

At least, I think it is. Just because I'm the author of the recently released Software Buyer's Guide, doesn't mean my opinion on its relevance is biased, really. If you...

I'm a bad blogger. I've been very quiet lately. It's that time of year, after our fiscal year ends, but before we announce our results, and so I've obviously been busy with customers (remember them?) but can't really share the excitement.

I was trying to find the recording from last month's...

Recently Chris Wallace has been writing about formatting numbers in XQuery; as you may remember,...

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